In a record-breaking day this week, at the Gulele Botanical Garden in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia launched an historic tree planting campaign. Over 350 million trees were planted in an ambitious move to…
A state-of-the-art climate model, funded by the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and released by the prestigious scientific publisher Springer Nature, offers a roadmap for meeting -- and surpassing --…
The World Resources Institute offers up a five course ‘Menu of Solutions’ to achieve a sustainable food future
As the world’s population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, a new report…
Recently, questions have been raised about climate science. The National Academies have addressed many of these questions in our independent, evidence-based reports. We are speaking out to support…
Charles Eisenstein, author and philosopher, outlines a new narrative for the way we look at climate change, suggesting we begin with ourselves and pause before jumping to solutions. http://www.…
Should we get vaccinated? Fluoridate our water? Fight global warming? Believe in evolution? The Big Bang? Dark matter? It's difficult for many of us to base the answer to these questions on what a…
Introduction
The AGGI is a measure of the climate-warming influence of long-lived trace gases and how that influence has changed since the onset of the industrial revolution. The index was designed…
The Earth is on track to lose up to a million species, many of them within decades, a rate of extinction that represents a danger zone for humanity, according to a leaked draft of a global…
A major documentary on climate change, featuring Orkney’s pioneering marine energy work, is set to be premiered at the Cannes Film Festival next week.
Ice on Fire has been produced by Leonardo…
My intellectual and rational understanding of it has shifted to much more of an emotional and personal one.
‘Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth’s natural life.’ ‘The planet has…
Europe can expect even greater migratory pressure from Africa unless action is taken to prevent global warming, Sir David Attenborough has said in a strongly worded warning to policymakers that time…
The recent devastation in Mozambique due to two successive hurricanes (Aida and Kenneth) of unprecedented severity for southern Africa, are a clear indicator that we are now living in a climate…
On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report.
One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.
Nature…
Green-Kenya took part in The Pollination Project grantees meeting in Nairobi for experience sharing at Go- Down art centre. The meeting focused on the success, challenges of the grantees and those…
New research has found that global deforestation is on the rise.
The report, found that the tropics lost 12 million hectares of tree cover in 2018, the fourth-highest annual loss since records began…
We know our planet is in deep trouble — but that’s not what this particular Earth Day post is about. This is about what we can do to improve our state of affairs, and the technologies and initiatives…